Question

suppose the total number of workers employed in all industries is 30,000;the total number of workers in the country in sugar industry is 5000,the total number of workers employed in n region is 15000 and total number of workers in sugar industry is 3000. what is the suggestion of the location quotient ?

Answer 1

The percentage of workers in sugar industry across the country = (5000/30000)×100 = 16.67% ....i

Now the percentage of workers in sugar industry in a region 'n' = (3000/15000)×100 = 20% ....ii

The Location Quotient = Percentage of sugar workers in region n/ percentage of sugar workers across the country

= ii/i

= 20/16.67

= 1.20

An indication below 1.5 shows us that there is no specialization for sugar industry in the region n.

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